Please Help Quick ASAP Hurry Reread these lines from the poem "The Human Abstract."
What is the meaning of "Cruelty" in these lines?
And mutual fear brings peace,
Till the selfish loves increase:
Then Cruelty knits a snare,
And spreads his baits with care.

A. Cruelty is a young man learning to hunt before opening day
B. Cruelty is learning the skill of knitting from his grandmother
C. Cruelty is a conniving and knowing person who can trick us
D. Cruelty is going fishing and needs to choose his bait carefully

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

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